(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Wine) Curnonsky. France Paradis du Vin et de la Bonne Chere

Illus. with ochre drawings. 11x7.5", pictorial ochre & cream wrappers. First Edition. Paris: Editions Vins de France, c.1928.

A beautifully illustrated and loving tribute to the wines of France. Maurice Edmond Sailland, better known by his pen-name Curnonsky, and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. He wrote and ghost-wrote over 65 books and enormous numbers of newspaper columns. He is often considered the inventor of gastronomic motor-tourism as popularized by Michelin, though he himself could not drive.

Soiling to extremities & rear wrapper; one small fingerprint inside on front free endpaper, otherwise very good.

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